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Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
FROM WINFIELD.
Death of III. L. Robinson-Senator Hack-
ney Elected Mayor-Other Point
ers About Cowley's Capital.
Editor of the Eagle,

To the Editor OF the Eagle,
At7.15 Wednesday morning the life OF
NJ. L. Robinson. president of the First
National Bank, of Winfield, went out, re-
sultant from an abcess on the brain. He
was taken down Saturday evening at home,
following Slight brain puslation while
in st. Louis few days before. 1t was the
inevitable result of overwork. Mr. Robin
son was foremost among the financlers OF
Kansas. He started with Winfield ana has
ever been leader in its progress his
phenomenally active brain and ener-
gies welded great power IN
the plans and enterprises when
have made Winfield the solid and substan-
,ial city she is today. And with Winfield S
growth Mr.. Robinson grew, and at his
death was the wealthiest man in Cowley
county, was at the head Of one OF the
states leading monetary institutions and IN
terested in a multitude of enterprises, prl-
vate and public, that overwhelmed him
with labor and brought him TO the grave IN
the prime of his life. He was little past
fifty. The funeral occurs FRIDAY.
Business will be entirely suspended
in the city during the burial.
The election of ex Senator W. T. Hackney
to the mayoralty of Winfield, with coun-
cilmen fully in harmony with his liberal
and progressive views and determination,
means much for the city's future. IL
means that Winfield's growth in the next
two years, magical and marvellous as it has
been in the past, will be greater than
during the last eight. 1t means electric
light, sewerage, macadamized streets manu-
factories and metropolitan advance making
an era of prosperity never yet equalIed,
even by Wonderful Winning Wichita. "
Already the effect is not-d in an increased
real estate and building activity.
The women turned out very "thinly" at
| the CITY election, less than half OF those
registered voting, and they voted ditto to
their liege lords.
The D., Nj q a. Is now bridging 'he
w anut here, are grading on both
sides of the city and will be
running its trains TO the field by
the middle of May. giving this city a Mis-
souri, Pacific trunk line, with its general
nd division headquarters, machine shops
and round houses.
The large buildings in Island Park, one
Of the most beautiful natural parks in the
west, for the accommodation OF the Chau-
tauqua Interstate Sunday school assembly
meeting in June, are going up. This meet
ing, through its extensive arrangements
with daily excursions, will draw big crowds
| from all distances
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
AFTER THE BArrLE-PRA1s e.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.
-, o.tinn will he he 4 no

To the Editor Of the Eagle
The praise meeting will be I'd as an
nounced in the Baptist church this after
MON at o'clock. Mrs. Annie Palmer
will take part in the services. Let every
one interested, man or woman, bring an
offering as may best suit them. the secre-
tary will present tAe devising of the same
TO be acted upon This will close the work
of the temporary Woman's Association.
We believe that out of this shall eventually
arise a permanent organization, under the
wise guidance of some thoughtful, educat
ed woman, who not being member of the
w. C. T. L. nor identified with the suf
frage movement, shall be leader. That
pleasing all, shall yet offend none. and that
through this association the body Of the
Wichita women will be brought to higher
thought regarding the further questions
and duties that look them in the face.
We believe that this monstrous boa
constructor of whisky, RIGHTEOUSNESS and
gambling, that has so long sucked into its
carcass the honor, the virtue OF SO many
of the thoughtless and unwary, has re-
ceived from the clean, honest ballots cast
on Tuesday blow from which it will
never recover The tail of the serpent
will, doubtless, wriggle more or less for a
time, but it has had its death blow III
Wichita, and when next we do battle for
the honor of this city the healthy senti-
ment will either rally unto our
standard of Christian temperance or co
operate with honest labor. Unconvert-
ed capital is just as intoierant
to labor as it is Indifferent to christian tenn
perance. We congratulate our, as yet de
spised brothers, on the wise selection OF
their standard bearer showing they do not
distrust capitalist. We congratulate our
brother who received most Of the ballots
from the new voters, that he will not have
TO bear the cares that shall befall he who
shall carry the ship of state through the
perilous voyage before it. We congratulate
our labor brothers in the pr0Vldentlal man
ner in which they are being led in this city
here they have represented in their order
| Christ, temperance, labor, capital, and
| with these cabalistic words, harmonionsly
arranged, they will yet be the power to
bring the world under subsection to our
Fathe~. In the unexpected work which
has befallen us, we have cried aloud and
spared not, even ourselves. We trust that
circumstances may never surround us thus
again Should it occur, God helping, re-
CARELESS of friend or foe, we shall walk
with conscience void Of offence towards
God and man. ANNIE NJ. TAYLOR,
President Womans' Association.
1.-THE above should have appeared in
yesterday mornings baper but was crowded
out -DD EAGLE
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
THE GIST OF 1T.

We are asked every day to give the
Murray law" at length. This bill would
take up three columns, an everything in it
is given in the following summary wuich
we find in an exchange:
To obtain permit the druggist must OBJ.
tain the signatures Of twenty five men aud
twenty-five women to his application. He
must be pharmacist. of good moral char
acter and have stock of drugs Of at least
81 600 Gin city, exclusive of liquors,
and shall not use intoxi-
eating liquors for beverage
The druggist shall be required to prove his
assertions that he is a person OF the char
acter represented At the examination any
citizen may appear and cross examine him.
He shall also give bond of $1,000 for
faithful compliance with the law All
places where liquors are sold contrary to
law are declared common nuisances and
may be abolished, and proprietors fined not
less than 500 nor more than $500. All
fees of the probate judge are abolished,
and he receives, instead, $l5 per annum
for each | 900 inhabitants of the county.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
THE LESSON.
Prem the Enporis Republican

From tie kDlp9rIA hef
The fact cannot be disguised that the
first test Of women suffrage IN Kansas. that
was 10 have astoniShed the world and give
the lie to the old hackneyed objection that
women do not want the ballot. has fallen
tlat-very flat. The disciples of Susan B
Anthony and Lucy Stone who preach that
women are slaves hungerlng and thirsIing
for the ballot and all that sort Of dish
water, have made an arduous cam
paign and left nothing undone that
could be done Realizing the unpopular
iiy of their theories among the MASSES of
their sex, they were unwilling 10 risk the
open issue. but reSorted 10 strategy. and
made prohibition the ostensibe object
aimed at Upon this one string they have
ola, ed vigorously and necessarily, and by
means Of it have sought II drag the
church into the support of their move
ment They have urged upon Christian
women the duty Of saving their sons and
and brothers from the blight Of intemper
auce BY asserting their will at the polls.
aud have made believe If they failed 10
vote they We're committing hcnious
sin against God and .hsir religion. By III
| dustriously working this racaei sai by
I personal palsver and persuasion they gain
e'i their first victory in the seduction OF The
/ Legislature. SGD hoped to carry the state
/ With the sauce devices How We'll they
succeeded i shown ii the results ot Tues
days election.
{ Let us investigate these results. Ia En-
/ poria q close snd searching Canvass vi as
( made, committees were appointed for
each ward 10 see that the Women regss-
sered and then that iney came gu,
/. a. vote. there ~as no organized OPPOSITE 4
! 70 them whstever, AMI YET out of the 2, So
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

The introduction of gentle and mild
hammered women into politics has not in
the slightest Gained the three-hundred and
sixty five daysa year storm in Leaven
worth. but has rather augmented it. Mr..
Gus. Thomas, a correspondent Of the ST.
Louis Post Dispatch aud the New York
World, published an interview with Mr.
Helen Cougar in which he says She made
the extraordinary statement that the upper
stratum of social life in LeavenwOrth was
frightfully licentious, owing to the pres
ence of the military post at Fort Leaven-
worth, with its large number of army otfi
GERS She added that the trading in wives
was something beyond estimation. Mr.
Thomas was So astonished that he says he
made her repeat it. Mrs Cougar has had
Thomas arrested for libel, and Thomas
says that he will establish the fact that she
made the statement 1t will require two
or three campaigns Of female suffrage to
bring the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. City
Union.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

eligible female voters of the city they sue
ceeded in prevailing upon only 1913 OF them
to vote-about II per cent So little, IN
fact, did the ladies care for the ballot that
less than three-fourths of the number per-
suaded to register, went to the polls. The
candidates upon whom they consolidated
their votes were in every case defeated,
with the exception of one councilman, who
was elected by two plurality through the
divided vote of the opposition.
In Wichita, which claims TO have 5000
qualified female voters, only two hundred
cast their ballots The reports of the To-
peka and Fl Scott elections say, ''the
women voted pretty much as their hus-
bands did" In Leavenworth, the only
town in the state where anything like fair
proportion of tbs women voted, their votes
were pretty we'll divided between the pro-
hibition candidates and the saloon candi
dates, the Democrats carrying the election.
The same results are apparent in all
parts IF the state. clearly demonstrat-
ing that woman suffrage, tested under
the most favorable circumstances. with
out organized opposition. aided BY an
effemina,e press, and bolstered up with the
strong propof temperance, is substantial
I1dl IL UOb Uttu lOl
ance plea (Which in reality was all bum
combe and used simply rs pretext, prohi-
bition being accomplished without the
votes of the women) il is safe to say even
the meagre vote polled would have been
curtailed nine-tenths.
The election has demonstrated that not
only do the women of Kansas have no de
sire for the ballot, but that they cannot be
forced or gulled into exercising it. Its re
suits may be regarded as victory for the
vomanly women" and manly men OF
Kansas over the false theories and wild
vageries Of that small class Of sophists
who believe nature should be re
versed aud the sex line obliter-
ated If the suffrage advocates
do not improve their record at the next
elections, the little farcial enactment known
as the municipal suffrage Law will stand a
fair show of being repealed at the next SEES
sion of the legislature, if. indeed. the su
preme court does not in the interim declare
il void by reason of unconstitutionaity,
which is entirely probable. REX.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

More than forty papers in various sec
tons of the state of Kansas. have given
Hon. E. Ii. Funston favorable mention in
connection with the governorship There
seems to he a growing element among the
farmers for Funston. -Kausas City Jour
nal
Funston, it seems gave pledge to Dick
Blue last fall that he would not again be a
candidate for congress from the 22nd dis
trlct, aud to enable him to fully carry out
the pledge, the scheme is to run him for
governor. 1t is very thin schetse and
will not probably be made to work.-El
Dorado Republican
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

To large extent Wichita Kansas is a
pro inct Of Cairo. Ill. the money made in
the latter place heing great share of the
basis of the boom the former is enjoying.
aud the interests of the people of the two
localities are now SO mnCh interviewer,
tina, what trqnspires in Wichita is of local
interest in Cairo.-Cairo Daily Argus.
We very much doubt if there are two
dozon Cairo people living in Wichita, and
n for Caro's money building Wichita its
purely Imagination
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

If the picture drawn by the Kansas City
Star of the rows between the men and
women at the polls, in Leavenwor,h, is R
half way true one it was simply disgrace
full. Mrs. Cougar went from poll to poll
in the interest of one candidate and Il Mrs.
Byington, who wore mans coat ana
claims to be real estate agent, went about
in the same way in the interest of the other
candidate for MAJOR.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

The Railway Age states that the records
show over five hundred miles Of track laid
from january to March l, which is more
than has been reported in any previous
year, and Kansas monopolizes more than
any other state of this five hundred miles.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
THAT PROPHECY.

Marsh Murdoch says Wichita in five
wears will have a population of 100, 900.
This when properly boiled down means a
population in ten years of 50, 600 which Is
NOS an unreasonable prediction. Wichita
is promising town.-Emporia Repub!i-
can.
Do you remember, or do you know OF a
single instance in which Marsh Murdoch S
prophesies touching Wichita in the past
ever failed in any particular? If you do
not, and if you know Of no one who does,
then why express doubt in such language
as might lead the unwary to conclude that
somebody had probably lied, not only in
the matter of population as expressed by
figures, but lied As to time by whole years.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

Charles Francis Adams, whose opinion
is possibly somewhat tinged 10y his posi-
ton as head Of the Union Pacific, regards
the words under conditions substantially
the same" which qualify the long and
short haul clause Of the commerce bill, as
highly Objectionable. In them, he says, is
much labor cut out for the commission,
and they are big with litigation for the
courts and fees for the lawyers. Mr..
Adams unqualifedly endorses the abolition
OF passes and hopes the railroads will make
it thorough, though lac fears they will not
He thinks, however, that the ntl-poollng
provision of the law will lead to such com
petition rs will destroy all the weaker roads
and result in vast and dangerous consollda-
fio0a
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

From Racing the Daily Sentinel ii is ev-
ideni that harmony does not reign In the
ranks of the woman sutfrsgistS Of that cat.
to any alarming extent. The election 5
ov,r buj Que lady coHies ont in card ana
snamsyilv is down an two other les
and IN al editor Oh. ladies'. laGtsl
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

Major Henry Shanklin for msny years
of Lawrence, but now of Wichita las been
promoted 10 a 81 900 clerkship in the pen
SION bureau -Atchison Champion.
Major Shanklin WAS The agent for the
Wichita Indians while their agency VAS On
She present town site Of Wichita. He is
m old Ksn>an and We congratulate HIM On
hn
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

John Sherman is travelling in the south,
while Blaine is making a tour Of the west.
On the other hand Cleveland remains at
home happy in the thought that New York
CITY will choose the next president.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

Kansas thought she had a pretty poor
legislative body this winter, and Nebraska
strongly for the BOBBY prize, but
Colorado appears to have borne OF the
palm Missouri had to call an extra session.
One dose was not sufficient k G. Times.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

A correspondent at Sterling writes that
one hundred and twenty women of that
town voted and mot one of them were
unseXed." Such a declaration as the per
sonal knowledge Of single individual
who is presumably man, is perfectly as
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

NJ. -e than fifty Thousand farms have
been opened in Kansas duriug the las;
three year. So seyS Congressman Peters,
who has heen looking ihe matter W in re
ls,inn e. his hill for the relief of The home.
s.aa1..r
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

The Atchison Champion endorses tn
E,GLr's views on adyertising a town The
. .apl. for whom il was written would en-
dorse il also if they knew enough.
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

The press over he country generally Is
impress,d with the new era In politics IN
augura,ed by the speeches Of Senator
Sherman to southern audiences, The
reception of the distinguished statesman
by The leading men 81 the south shows the
long step forward that has been taken. No
one can doubt but that the giving way Of
old prejudices will give-rhe south such a
boom upward rs she has never before ex-
ncfirnCed
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
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Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
tons.

A new town, the future Wichita Of The
southwest, has Leen started called Voorhees,,
in Stevens county. 1t don't ask for any
county seat. 1t simply wants to furnish
the groceries and things for No Mans
Land. II is named after the Tall Syca-
more of the Wabash, is eighty miles south
Of Garden City and three miles north OF
No Mans Land IL differs from every
other town ever started in Southwest Kan
sas. in that it does not aspire to be a county
seat. but in the event of the neutral strip
being added to Kansas and thrown open
foI settlement. it will claim the land office
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08

The New Albany Opdiana) Ledgcr's Ii
rade against Wichita has been duly receiv-
cd and IFS editor is reformed Inat in our es-
timation he is chump the gray matter of
VIII lose brains would hardly find patronage
any where beyond The confines of Hoosier
dom. For head his backbone seems to
have simply protiuded above his shoulders
and haired over. If the average citizen Of
his town sizrs up no better then Wichita
not ONLY has 20 use for them but they
would starye to death here
Wichita eagle., 1887-04-08
Dr. |. Clement billings,

OF rarshalitown. Iowa, also late ~ TopA-
"a Kansas, mas iocat.sd al Wichita for the
Dractioa Of his profession.
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j. Fl. JA M Fl 8
TO THE
FRONT

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But won't use IL space to bring
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As you stand and behold them
laid pile upon pile. or tobaccos
and cigars we have quite ehough,
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puff. Our new and full line of plain
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Personal.

j. NJ. Nisanslta, is quito sick.
Delegates to the Enorec P~rcsbyterv at
Union, So, have returned home.
Miss Mary Dorroh, Of Nowbcrrv is
visiting relatives here.
Miss Hattie Jones', has returned ircm
Il visit To pondlcton.
MIR. J. Lee Langston il gagged with
M"sSrs Orr, Owiugs ~ Boho.
Mrs G. W. Tune, has returned from II
visit to Naginia and North Carolina.
Miss Amelia Kcnncrly, OF Ncwbcrry,
who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
DR.. Todd, has returned home.
Rcv. IIuntoi Il. Blakelay, who has re-
Gently been in To mos zee has boon
I" w. Perrin, Esq, OF the Ahhevillc
bar, WAS IN town last week, on business
before the Mas,crin Equity.
Col and Mrs W. Ill. rIunt, Of Ncwbcrry
spent several days here last week, Wis
iting at DR.. Barksdaic's.
Miss Lulu Pitts, Il charming young
lady of this place, il now at ~lIolliHs In
]stitnt", Val, whcrc she is taking post
graduate course.
Mr. Lee Simpson, has gone to Green
wood fur the season, where he il cngag-
in tho cotton business.
Joseph L. johnson, has returned from
Il visit to his brother i'll Nova Scotia,
and Is Ereally improved in looks. Bat
"Joo" was always finc looking.
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State Of ~SouthCarolina.
COUNTY OF

by virtue of authority in me YES
ted by 4 power of attorney given
hy NJ NJ Black, = FPylcs, r. I To-
hin, } NJ Mcdowell and j V Me-
poWcll. ! will sell for the
of partition and Lewiston on sales
day in October next at l2M.. all
th"ttract piece or parcrl ofland sit
uatr, lying and being in the Coun-
~ OF l.AurcnS in said, state con-
tanning Two Hundred and thir-
" lhrcc acres more or less, and
known rs the Mcdowell place and
bounded by lands of JohnC Davis,
lands "fSallic Davis, lands orr S
Grim and others, upon the fol-
lowing termSto wit, one half cash
IA" balance o. n credit of twelve
months with bond of the purchaser
ana mortgage Of the premises to
secure the credit portion, with
leave to the purchaser to pay his
entire bid in cash. Purchaser to
pay t~orpApcrS.
y i DIAL,
Attorney in fact.